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Changing the names of pre-defined groups
By default, the pre-defined groups in phpBB can't have their names changed. This is done to achieve consistency between phpBB forums and these groups are required for permissions to work properly. However, there is a workaround which does allow you to change the names and we'll be explaining it in this article and show you how to do it.

The following groups are pre-defined when installing phpBB 3.x:

Administrators

Bots

Global Moderators

Guests

Newly Registered Users

Registered Users

Registered COPPA Users

Now, as a matter of example, we're going to change those names to the following:

Administrators => Founders

Bots => Search engines

Global Moderators => Moderators

Guests => Visitors

Newly Registered Users => New users

Registered Users => Regular users

Registered COPPA Users => COPPA users

You will need to edit the language files in order to achieve these changes. First, make sure to use a proper code text editor for the edits, instructions for that can be found in this article and be sure to save any files as UTF-8 without BOM.

For the British English language, you need to look inside the language/en/common.php file at your server. Use FTP to download the file to your computer, open the file and look for the following code: